Jailbreaking Your PS3: All Fun & Games Until Your Online Gaming Is Ruined

Sony’s trying its hardest to erase the PS3 Jailbreak hack from the Internet, but we all know that’s folly. Two seconds on YouTube turns up not only links to all the necessary files, but detailed, how-to videos describing how to hack the system. The scary thing for Sony is that we’re long past the point where hacking a video game console requires soldering knowledge and a hard-to-find modchip. Today all you need is a small USB flash drive and the ability to follow along with a low-res instructional video, and even our most attention deficit disordered youth can pull that trick off.

"To think that all of this could have been avoided had Sony not decided to remove the Install Other OS option. Oops."

Didn't the whole "hacking" debate start BECAUSE of Linux on the PS3? If I remember correctly, Sony removed the option in an attempt to slow down any attempt at "hacking" that was being attempted at the time.

im still waiting for those pro-hacking supporters to start commenting. where are they now? you know the ones im talking about. the same ones who claimed "the console is now theirs and they can do whatever they want to it". the ones who were bitching "i cant wait for homebrew to put in the other OS option." "i cant wait for homebrew to enhance my console coz sony isnt doing it" "cant wait for my mkv support" "cant wait for the emulators"

where is that crowd now? are they happy now that our online is going down the tubes? all this time, all the custom firmware i read about, not one mentioned emulators, mkv support or any other damn features to "enhance" the console.

all we got is messed up multiplayer, glitched out save games and the ability to play PIRATED games. lets not fool ourselves and claim that backup games are not PIRATED games. iv been a gamer forever and never once did i feel the need to backup my games.

that crowd you speak of dont know f**kall about hacking. they are a bunch of leechers. they wait for SOMEONE else to do all the hard work and then just buy that and use it. they not involved in jack. if they were involved in the homebrew scene that you speak of the ps3 wouldve been hacked a long time ago.

those people leech off the hackers just as much as they leech off other peoples hard work.

I guess I am one of those users that like the idea of homebrew. To an extent though. I agree 100% that 99% of people that will hack their PS3 will do so for piracy and to be honest part of me has though of it. However i have not hacked my PS3 just because, and this might sound stupid to some, I just love holding the actual game disc and having all my game cases in order so I can see them; I like having an actual physical library of games. That and the fact that I have become a pretty big trophy whore so I would not want anything to come between me and my trohpies lol.

Having said all of that though I will say this: the day XBMC or Boxee or something similar comes to the PS3 through homebrew apps I will hack my PS3 because I would love using my PS3 as my real media center.

I think the distinction between jailbreaks (one that let's you play pirated games, and one that does not) needs to be addressed

Why is it constantly Call of Duty that is being reported as being insanely hacked? Am I led to believe that online can be kept safe if the game is securely designed and that COD is an example of where the security is just poor or is there other games out there being hacked to hell and it just hasn't been reported?

I really wish these jailbreakig articles would go away until there is something relevant to report. Right now the PS3 jailbreaking scene is searching for a killer app. For the iPhone that killer app is Miwi, for the PS3...who knows. But until then there isn't reason to hack your PS3 outside of cheating, which is something most mainstream gamers isn't in to.

I hate to point at a certain group, but younger gamers who havent matured yet are the biggest of the cheaters. Not to mention all you need is google and a USB and now the younger kids have the means to hack.

before you would need to know how to solder, find the right modchip, and risk bricking machine and killing warranty. O and you would also need to have money which a lot of the younger crowd does not have.

This new soft mod or jailbreak is way too easy, its really dissapointing because I thought the PS3 was the most secure of all gaming. now its the opposite because some brat. and NO ITS NOT BECAUSE THEY REMOVED OTHER OS. it was removed because of hacking not causing it.

Couldn’t Sony in effect not stop this by disabling the usb ports? Wait that’s stupid how would you charge the controller then ummm i don’t know all i can think of is disabling the usb ports until they have this sorted out but they won’t do that because we need the ports to charge the controller. I also agree with KingPin WTF happened to the homebrew all i see is “backup” games and cheats

It's sad how some people fail to realize that on a system dependent on system security to ensure the quality of the features it offers, hacking, no matter the intent, leads to destruction as much as it does the creation.

Right now, there's several million people who have lost multiplayer in two CoD games because some asshole released a hack in the name of homebrew.

If Sony doesn't win this case against Geohot and failOverflow, it will be an embarrassment to the legal system in this country... essentially pissing all over the rights of people who bought their console for what it was intended for in favor of a small minority who bought it with the intention of using it for something it wasn't intended for. I'm all for the enabling of homebrew if it doesn't hurt other customers, but that clearly isn't the case here and the law should recognize that.

I agree the American legal system should be embarrassed if they let this of, however i doubt the Scottish legal system would be any better, people keep says drag the case on as long as possible i say get it over with asap the longer it goes on the worse it gets for sony since jail breaking isn’t illegal but hopefully with this case it will become illegal and removing something from the web isn’t that hard Microsoft did it with the early windows 7 cracks with is arguably 100’s of times more popular than the ps3 jail brake

lag switching has nothing to do with the game your playing. the host of said game uses a device that interrupts his connection to the rest of the players resulting in everyone "lagging out" until the switch is reconnected, either by timer or the user himself.

...and since when are little douche bags on xbl/psn that find ways to cheat via youtube considered "hackers"?

LMMFAO Shot you better line up because I'm sure that they'll be millions of folks wanting to do the same thing. Read my comment and if you agree then maybe this is the place where it should start Power to the honest gamers Sony we've got your back dog....

It doesn't matter whether Sony removed the OS, it's obvious the reason why Sony removed it in the first place. Because the OS system was no longer secure and could be easily manipulated by dweebs like Geo Hot, that's why they removed it.

Remember ladies and germs that OS are nothing but codes and a person that knows how to decipher these codes can easily hack the said code, plus I'm sick and tired of these so call band of Pirates and cheater messing with our entertainment because they're a bunch of haters.

Why should we the honest gamers have to suffer huh? What about our rights huh? These Pirates, cheater and hackers have got away with this for far to long and the law need to be on the side of the honest gamers for a change.

There's not one online game that hasn't being plagued by cheaters and hackers and we're supposed to just take it up the ass, come on ladies and germs it's time the honest gamers took some action take a stance. I'm sure that there are more honest gamers than there are pirates and cheaters and hackers combined, if you're a PS3 owner and you agree with what I'm saying let's support Sony in their time of need by saturating the internet with our discord against hackers like Geo Hots and other pirates and cheats by backing up Sony.

I'm sure that once that happens and Sony's lawyers see that we've got their back, they'll compile all our messages from honest gamers regarding this matter and when the law sees that folks have had enough it'll make for an serious ass whooping that Geo Hot won't ever forget.

And it will send out a clear message that hackers and cheater that their days are numbered. Enough said peace out ladies and germs....